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+ <h1 style="text-align:center">Apache Ranger Policy Model</h1>
+ <p class=MsoNormal style='font:5.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </p>
+ <div style="text-align:center">
+ <p class=MsoNormal>Madhan Neethiraj, Apache Ranger committer</p>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>Mar 08, 2022</p>
+ </div>
+ <p class=MsoNormal> </p>
+
+ <div class=WordSection>
+ <h1>Introduction</h1>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Apache Ranger is an extensible framework that enables enterprises to
adopt a consistent approach to authorize
+ access to their resources across multiple
services/applications/cloud. Apache Ranger framework also enables
+ enterprises to collect audit logs of access to their resources, to
help meet various compliance requirements.
+ </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal> </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Apache Ranger is a central part of security in many large
deployments in enterprises across various domains
+ like finance, retail, insurance, healthcare, services. Apache Ranger
has out-of-the box support for a large
+ number of popular services and many more services are supported by
commercial vendors. Apache Ranger is highly
+ optimized for performance, adds negligible overhead in authorizing
access to resources. It has been very well
+ proven in very high throughput services like Apache Kafka, Apache
HBase which perform thousands of
+ authorizations per second.
+ </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal> </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Apache Ranger provides an intuitive web user interface to manage
authorization policies and audit logs for
+ access to resources across a large number of services. Apache Ranger
also provides REST, Python, Java APIs for
+ programmatic integration with tools used by enterprises. Open
framework provided by Apache Ranger enables
+ enterprises to extend Apache Ranger authorization to their own
applications and services as well.
+ </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal> </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Here are few key points that make Apache Ranger a compelling option
for enterprises looking to standardize
+ authorization of access to their resources:
+ </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-indent:-.25in'>1.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman"'> </span>out-of-the-box support for more than a
dozen popular services like Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Kafka, Apache
Solr, Elasticsearch, Apache NiFi and Presto.</p>
+
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>2.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>support for
services like Amazon EMR, AWS S3, ADLS-Gen2, GCS, Snowflake, Google BigQuery,
Trino, Dremio, Starburst, Apache Impala, Postgres, MS-SQL and Amazon Redshift
by commercial vendors.</p>
+
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>3.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>policies
for access authorization, row-filters, data masking.</p>
+
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>4.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman"'> </span>resource-based, classification-based
policies, role-based, attribute-based policies.</p>
+
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>5.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>delegated
administration, deny and exceptions in policies, custom conditions.</p>
+
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>6.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>centralized
audit logs of accesses to enterprise resources across multiple services,
interactive user interface to view audit logs of accesses.</p>
+
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>7.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>intuitive
policy management UI.</p>
+
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>8.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>Java,
Python, REST APIs for programmatic integration for policy management.</p>
+
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-indent:-.25in'>9.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>open
framework which enables enterprises to extend Apache Ranger authorization to
their own applications and services.</p>
+
+ <h1>Policy Model</h1>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ At the core of Apache Ranger authorization is its policy model. We
will go through key aspects of the Apache
+ Ranger policy model in this section.
+ </p>
+
+ <h2>Resources</h2>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ A resource is a fundamental element in the Apache Ranger policy
model. Apache Ranger enables policies to
+ authorize access to resources. In this context, a resource is
anything whose access needs to be authorized,
+ like a file/path, database, table, column, topic; but can also be a
service – like Apache Knox topology.
+ Apache Ranger policy model captures details of resources of a
service in a declarative way – details like
+ hierarchy, case-sensitivity, supports row-filter/data-masking, etc.
+ </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal> </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Type of resources vary across services/applications, as seen in the
table below:
+ </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal> </p>
+
+ <table class=MsoTableGrid border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0
style='margin-left:30.35pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none'>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;text-align:center'><p
class=MsoNormal><b>Service</b></p></td>
+ <td valign=top style='width:325pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;text-align:center'><p
class=MsoNormal><b>Resources</b></p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Apache
Hive</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>databases, tables, columns, udfs</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Apache
Kafka</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>topics</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Apache
Solr</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>collections</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>AWS
S3</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>buckets, objects</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>ADLS-Gen2</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>storage-accounts, containers, objects</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Azure
PowerBI</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>workspaces</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Google
BigQuery</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>projects, datasets, tables, columns</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>Snowflake</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>databases, schemas, tables, columns,
warehouses</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>Trino</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>catalogs, schemas, tables, columns,
procedures</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>...</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal></p></td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <h2>Permissions</h2>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ A permission is another fundamental element in the Apache Ranger
policy model. A permission is an action
+ performed on a resource, like reading a file, creating a directory,
querying a table, or publishing a message
+ to a topic. Apache Ranger policy model captures details of
permissions of a service in a declarative way –
+ details like which permissions are applicable to specific resource
types, implied permissions, etc.
+ </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal> </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Like resources, list of permissions varies across
services/applications, as seen in the table below:
+ </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal> </p>
+ <table class=MsoTableGrid border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0
style='margin-left:30.35pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none'>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;text-align:center'><p
class=MsoNormal><b>Service</b></p></td>
+ <td valign=top style='width:325pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;text-align:center'><p
class=MsoNormal><b>Permissions</b></p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Apache
Hive</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>create, alter, drop, select, insert, ..</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Apache
Kafka</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>publish, consume, create, delete, describe,
configure, ..</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Apache
Solr</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>query, update, others, Solr admin</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>AWS
S3</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>read, write, delete, ..</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>ADLS-Gen2</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>read, write, delete, ..</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Azure
PowerBI</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>contributor, member, admin, none</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Google
BigQuery</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>project-list, dataset-create, table-create,
table-list, query, ..</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>Snowflake</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>CreateSchema, CreateTable, Select, Insert, Update,
..</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>Trino</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>create, alter, drop, select, insert, ..</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign=top style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>...</p></td>
+ <td valign=top
style='width:325pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal></p></td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <h2>Users, Groups, Roles</h2>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Apache Ranger enables authorization policies to be set up to
allow/deny permissions to users, groups, and
+ roles. Users and groups are typically obtained from an enterprise
directory like AD/LDAP. Apache Ranger
+ user-sync module handles details of bringing users and groups from
sources like LDAP/AD/OS, and keeping up
+ with the changes in the sources - like addition of users and groups,
addition/removal of a user from a group.
+ </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal> </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Apache Ranger user-sync supports retrieving attributes of users and
groups as well. Such attributes, like
+ dept/location/site-id, can be used in authorization policies to
allow/deny access to resources, and set up
+ row-filters that restrict users to access relevant subset of data.
More on this later in this document.
+ </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal> </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ In addition to users and groups, Apache Ranger supports roles to be
used in authorization policies. A role in
+ Apache Ranger is a grouping of users, groups, and other roles. Roles
can be managed using Apache Ranger UI and
+ REST APIs by authorized users. Role based authorization is widely
used in enterprises and having support for
+ roles in Apache Ranger makes it possible to use well established
enterprise security practices in Apache Ranger
+ authorization policies.
+ </p>
+
+ <h2>Delegated Admin</h2>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Apache Ranger enables decentralization of authorization policies
management with support for delegated-admin
+ feature. A set of users, groups and roles can be granted permission,
via an Apache Ranger policy (what else!),
+ to manage authorization policies for a subset of resources and
permissions. For example, users in
+ <samp>finance-admin</samp> group can be granted permissions to
manage authorization policies for contents of
+ Snowflake database named <samp>finance</samp>, and AWS S3 objects
under <samp>s3://mybucket/dept/finance</samp>.
+ This offers a scalable approach to manage authorization in large
deployments.
+ </p>
+
+ <h2>Security Zone</h2>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Apache Ranger supports security zones to enable multi-tenancy within
an organization where admins from
+ different lines of businesses can manage security policies for their
own resources. For example, data that
+ belongs to the sales team can be managed by administrators of the
sales team, similarly data of marketing,
+ sales, operations teams can be managed by respective administrators.
+ </p>
+ <p class=MsoNormal> </p>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Also, security zones can be used to isolate resources based on
purpose. For example, it is common for a data
+ lake to have distinct areas and authorization policies for test
data, unprocessed/raw data, semi-processed
+ data, and production data. Apache Ranger makes it easier to manage
security policies in such deployments with
+ use of security zones like:
+ </p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>Test
zone</p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>Landing
zone</p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>Staging
zone</p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>Production
zone</p>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ A security zone can contain resources from multiple
services/applications, like AWS S3, ADLS-Gen2, GCS,
+ Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Postgres, Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive,
Apache HBase, Apache Kafka. This makes it
+ easier to set up consistent authorization policies across multiple
services by a set of administrators
+ designated for each security zone.
+ </p>
+
+ <h2>Allow, Deny, Exceptions</h2>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ In addition to authorization policies that can grant access to
resources, Apache Ranger also enables policies
+ to be setup to:
+ </p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>deny access
to users/groups/roles on resources</p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>exclude a
subset of users from accesses allowed/denied above</p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>deny all
access to specific resources other than the ones allowed in the policy</p>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ This makes it easier to set up policies to protect sensitive
resources.
+ </p>
+
+ <h2>Wildcards, macros, variables in resource names</h2>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Apache Ranger policies support use of wildcards, macros, and
variables in resource names. This makes it
+ possible to use small number of policies for a large number of
resources, as shown below:
+ </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal> </p>
+ <table class=MsoTableGrid border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0
valign=center style='margin-left:30.35pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none'>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in
5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;text-align:center'><p class=MsoNormal><b>Policy
Resource</b></p></td>
+ <td style='width:450pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;text-align:center'><p
class=MsoNormal><b>Description</b></p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal><samp>test_<b>*</b></samp></p></td>
+ <td
style='width:450pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>matches all resources having name that start with
test_</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal><samp>/home/<b>{USER}</b></samp></p></td>
+ <td
style='width:450pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>a path under /home having name of current
user</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal><samp>/dept/<b>${{USER.dept}}</b></samp></p></td>
+ <td
style='width:450pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>a path under /dept having name of current user’s
department</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p class=MsoNormal></p>
+
+ <h2>Policy validity schedule</h2>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Apache Ranger enables policies to be effective only for specific
time schedules. This feature can be used to
+ create policies that need to be effective at a future time, for
example to allow access to revenue reports for
+ a wider audience only after a specific time. This feature can also
be used to allow temporary access to
+ specific users/groups/roles, with a specific start and end times.
+ </p>
+ <p class=MsoNormal> </p>
+
+ <h1>Attribute based access control</h1>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Apache Ranger enables use of user, group, resource, classification,
and the environment attributes in
+ authorization policies. ABAC makes it possible to express
authorization policies without prior knowledge of
+ specific resources, specific users – which helps avoid the need for
new policies as new resources or users are
+ introduced.
+ </p>
+ <br/>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ For example:
+ </p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>allow each
user to access all tables owned by them, using <b><i>{OWNER}</i></b> macro:</p>
+ <table class=MsoTableGrid border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0
valign=center style='margin-left:30pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none'>
+ <tr style='border:solid'>
+ <td style='width:75pt;border-right:solid;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><samp>resource</samp></p></td>
+ <td style='width:200pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>database=*, table=*</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr style='border:solid;border-top:none'>
+ <td style='width:75pt;border-right:solid;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>users</p></td>
+ <td style='width:200pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal><b>{OWNER}</b></p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr style='border:solid;border-top:none'>
+ <td style='width:75pt;border-right:solid;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>permissions</p></td>
+ <td style='width:200pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>all</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p></p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>allow users
to access their department data in AWS S3, by using user attribute
<b><i>${{USER.dept}}</i></b>:</p>
+ <table class=MsoTableGrid border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0
valign=center style='margin-left:30pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none'>
+ <tr style='border:solid'>
+ <td style='width:75pt;border-right:solid;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><samp>resource</samp></p></td>
+ <td style='width:300pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>bucket=mycompany,
object=/data/<b><i>${{USER.dept}}</i></b>/*</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr style='border:solid;border-top:none'>
+ <td style='width:75pt;border-right:solid;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>users</p></td>
+ <td style='width:300pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal><b>{USER}</b></p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr style='border:solid;border-top:none'>
+ <td style='width:75pt;border-right:solid;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>permissions</p></td>
+ <td style='width:300pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>read,write</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p></p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>allow users
in mktg group to access <samp>PII</samp> data of email type, by using tag
attribute <b><i>TAG.piiType</i></b>:</p>
+ <table class=MsoTableGrid border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0
valign=center style='margin-left:30pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none'>
+ <tr style='border:solid'>
+ <td style='width:75pt;border-right:solid;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><samp>resource</samp></p></td>
+ <td style='width:200pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>tag=PII</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr style='border:solid;border-top:none'>
+ <td style='width:75pt;border-right:solid;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>groups</p></td>
+ <td style='width:200pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>mktg</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr style='border:solid;border-top:none'>
+ <td style='width:75pt;border-right:solid;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>condition</p></td>
+ <td style='width:200pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal><b><i>TAG.piiType == 'email'</i></b></p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr style='border:solid;border-top:none'>
+ <td style='width:75pt;border-right:solid;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>permissions</p></td>
+ <td style='width:200pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>select</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p></p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>tables with
<samp>SENSITIVE</samp> classification should be accessible only by users having
privileges for that sensitive level</p>
+ <table class=MsoTableGrid border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0
valign=center style='margin-left:30pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none'>
+ <tr style='border:solid'>
+ <td style='width:75pt;border-right:solid;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><samp>resource</samp></p></td>
+ <td style='width:300pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>tag=SENSITIVE</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr style='border:solid;border-top:none'>
+ <td style='width:75pt;border-right:solid;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>groups</p></td>
+ <td style='width:300pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>public</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr style='border:solid;border-top:none'>
+ <td style='width:75pt;border-right:solid;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>condition</p></td>
+ <td style='width:300pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal><b><i>TAG.sensitiveLevel <
USER.allowedSensitiveLevel</i></b></p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr style='border:solid;border-top:none'>
+ <td style='width:75pt;border-right:solid;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>permissions</p></td>
+ <td style='width:300pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>select</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <h1>Resource based access control</h1>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Apache Ranger enables setting up policies to grant or deny
permissions to users/group/roles based on specific
+ resource names, like:
+ </p>
+ <br/>
+
+ <table class=MsoTableGrid border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0
valign=center style='margin-left:30.35pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none'>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in
5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;text-align:center'><p class=MsoNormal><b>Service</b></p></td>
+ <td style='width:200pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;text-align:center'><p
class=MsoNormal><b>Resource</b></p></td>
+ <td style='width:120pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;text-align:center'><p
class=MsoNormal><b>Permission</b></p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Apache
Hive</p></td>
+ <td style='width:200pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;text-align:left'>
+ <table class=MsoTableGrid border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0
valign=center
style='margin-left:3pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:3pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none'>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>database</td>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>sales</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>table</td>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>order_data</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>column</td>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>order_amount</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </td>
+ <td
style='width:120pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>select</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Apache
Kafka</p></td>
+ <td style='width:200pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;text-align:left'>
+ <table class=MsoTableGrid border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0
style='margin-left:3pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:3pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none'>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>topic</td>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>finance</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </td>
+ <td
style='width:120pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>publish, consume</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>AWS
S3</p></td>
+ <td style='width:200pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;text-align:left'>
+ <table class=MsoTableGrid border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0
style='margin-left:3pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:3pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none'>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>bucket</td>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>mycompany</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>path</td>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>/home/{USER}</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </td>
+ <td
style='width:120pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>read, write, delete</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>ADLS-Gen2</p></td>
+ <td style='width:200pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;text-align:left'>
+ <table class=MsoTableGrid border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0
valign=center
style='margin-left:3pt;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:3pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none'>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>storage-account</td>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>mycompany</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>container</td>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>home</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>path</td>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>/{USER}</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </td>
+ <td
style='width:120pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal>read, write, delete</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style='width:100pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p
class=MsoNormal>...</p></td>
+ <td style='width:200pt;border:solid windowtext
1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;text-align:left'></td>
+ <td
style='width:120pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid
windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in
5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal></p></td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <h1>Tag based access control</h1>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ In addition to authorization policies on resources, Apache Ranger
enables policies to be set up on
+ classifications (tags) associated with resources. This feature
enables enterprises to separate responsibility
+ of classification of resources (PII, PCI, PHI, credit card number,
etc.) from setting up access-control
+ policies. Classifications created, by a team of data stewards and
tools that scan data for sensitive
+ information, can be leveraged to drive authorization to access the
resources.
+ </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal> </p>
+
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Authorization policies on the classifications themselves, instead of
directly on the resources, will ensure
+ that appropriate policies will automatically be applied as
classifications are added, removed, and updated on
+ resources. Also, a single tag-based policy (for example on PII) can
be used to authorize access to resources
+ across multiple services like AWS S3, ADLS-Gen2, Snowflake,
Databricks SQL, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache
+ Kafka. This can significantly reduce the complexity in managing
authorization policies.
+ </p>
+
+ <h1>Data masking</h1>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Apache Ranger data-masking policies enable enterprises to allow
access to sensitive data suitably masked
+ depending on the context in which a user accesses the data. Some
users will need the data without masking,
+ while some other users can only be allowed to see partial or masked
or transformed value. While authorization
+ policies can be used to either allow or deny access to certain data,
data-masking policies enable dynamically
+ mask sensitive data as users access the data, for example to ensure
that:
+ </p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>analysts
have access to only specific part of birthday (year or month or day)</p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>only last 4
digits of a national id are available to customer service representatives</p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>only salary
ranges of employees (i.e., not the salary) are available to analysts</p>
+ <p class=MsoNormal> </p>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ In addition to supporting data-masking policies on resources, like
columns in Apache Hive/Snowflake/Databricks
+ SQL/Presto, Apache Ranger enables setting up data-masking policies
based on classifications (tags) associated
+ with resources. This can significantly reduce the complexity in
managing masking policies. In addition,
+ tag-based masking policies leverage classifications added to
resources by data stewards and tools that scan
+ data for sensitive information.
+ </p>
+
+ <h1>Row-filter</h1>
+ <p class="MsoNormal">
+ Apache Ranger row-filter policies enable enterprises to allow users
to access only a subset of data depending
+ upon the context in which a user accesses the data. When a table
having a row-filter is accessed by the user,
+ only a subset of rows will be visible to the user – depending upon
the filter setup in row-filter policy.
+ Row-filters can be used for example to ensure that:
+ </p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>data of
customers residing in a country is available only to analysts authorized to
access the country’s data</p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>a store
manager has access to only data relevant to the store she/he works in</p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>analysts
don’t have access to sensitive records</p>
+
+ <h1>Access audit logs</h1>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Apache Ranger generates audit logs of accesses to resources
protected by Apache Ranger authorization. Apache
+ Ranger can be configured to store audit logs in multiple
destinations, including Solr, HDFS, AWS S3, AWS
+ CloudWatch, ADLS-Gen2, Elasticsearch. Audit logs generated by Apache
Ranger include following details, which
+ can help enterprises to satisfy various compliance requirements:
+ </p>
+ <p class=MsoNormal></p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>resource
accessed; action performed; was access allowed</p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>time of
access, tags associated with the resource (PII, PCI, PHI, ..)</p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>who
performed the access, IP address from which the access was performed</p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span>ID of
Apache Ranger policy that allowed or denied the access</p>
+ <p class=MsoNormal> </p>
+ <p class=MsoNormal>
+ Apache Ranger provides an interactive user interface to view audit
logs stored in Solr, Elasticsearch or AWS
+ CloudWatch, with search capabilities to look for access audits for
specific resources, specific users, client
+ IP addresses, within a given time frame, specific classifications.
Apache Ranger audit logs can be stored in
+ ORC or JSON formats, which can then be loaded into various tools for
analysis.
+ </p>
+ <p class=MsoNormal> </p>
+
+ <h1>References</h1>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span><a
href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=61322361";>Apache
Ranger: tag-based policies</a></p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span><a
href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=65868896";>Apache
Ranger: row-filter and data-masking policies</a></p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span><a
href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER/Introduction+of+Security+Zones+in+Ranger";>Apache
Ranger: security zones</a></p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span><a
href="https://pypi.org/project/apache-ranger/";>Apache Ranger: Python</a></p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span><a
href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER/Ranger+Client+Libraries";>Apache
Ranger: Java</a></p>
+ <p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-indent:-.25in'>-<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span><a
href="https://ranger.apache.org/apidocs/index.html";>Apache Ranger: REST</a></p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </body>
+
+ <footer>
+ <div align=center >
+ <a href="/blogs.html">Apache Ranger™ blogs</a>
+ </div>
+ </footer>
+</html>
diff --git a/docs/src/site/xdoc/blogs.xml b/docs/src/site/xdoc/blogs.xml
index 0b302c117..bccbfdf45 100644
--- a/docs/src/site/xdoc/blogs.xml
+++ b/docs/src/site/xdoc/blogs.xml
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<body>
<section name="Apache Ranger™ blogs">
<ul>
-<li>
-<p>
-<a href="blogs/adventures_in_abac_1.html" target="_blank">Adventures in
attribute-based access control (ABAC) - part 1</a>
-</p>
- Explores choices for setting up access control based on sensitivity level
and content of the data, and attributes of the user.<br/>
- <div style="font-size: 90%;color: #999;">
- Posted on Apr 29, 2023 by Barbara Eckman, Comcast
- </div>
-</li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="blogs/policy_model.html" target="_blank">Apache Ranger
Policy Model</a>
+ </p>
+ Apache Ranger provides a rich and extensible policy model to support
access control, data masking, row-filters, RBAC, ABAC and TBAC. This blog
highlights key features of the policy model along with few examples.<br/>
+ <div style="font-size: 90%;color: #999;">
+ Posted on Mar 08, 2022 by Madhan Neethiraj, Apache Ranger committer
+ </div>
+ </li>
+ <p/>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <a href="blogs/adventures_in_abac_1.html"
target="_blank">Adventures in attribute-based access control (ABAC) - part 1</a>
+ </p>
+ Explores choices for setting up access control based on sensitivity
level and content of the data, and attributes of the user.<br/>
+ <div style="font-size: 90%;color: #999;">
+ Posted on Apr 29, 2023 by Barbara Eckman, Comcast
+ </div>
+ </li>
</ul>
</section>
</body>
